The All Progressives Congress
(APC) has reacted to the industrial action by the National Assembly workers.
Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, National
Publicity Secretary of the party, in a statement Monday night, said the
development is a sad reminder of what Nigerians witnessed under the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) administration.
He said PDP’s 16-year rule was
characterised by such incidences of unpaid salaries, ghost workers and a
shocking disdain for workers’ welfare.
The spokesman: “While the
minority PDP usurpers who parade themselves as the National Assembly leadership
have promptly paid themselves their allowances, National Assembly workers under
the umbrella of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) are owed
their duly earned 28 per cent increase in their salaries since 2010.
“Perhaps, if the National
Assembly leaders have focused on their core legislative business and operations
rather than resort to subterfuge with the sole intent of undermining the APC
government, the welfare of parliamentary workers would not have been taken for
granted.
“Nigerians will recall that the
President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration in one of its first actions as a
government approved federal government bailouts to states to settle salaries
owed workers. That is the stuff of people-centred governance which the APC
represents. A worker deserves his wages!
“We have now learnt that the
parliamentary workers have blocked all entrances into the National Assembly
complex and cut off essential services like power and water supply; effectively
crippling any form of activity within the premises.
“The APC calls on the Senate
President, Senator Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Yakubu Dogara to do the needful by attending to the demands of
the parliamentary workers.
“The welfare of workers is a
cardinal policy of the APC administration. We, therefore, call on the PDP led
National Assembly to save the country this national embarrassment.”
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